Actor-dancer Raghav Juyal recently recalled his experience of visiting Shah Rukh Khan’s palatial Mumbai bungalow Mannat for the first time to meet Aaryan Khan in connection with The Ba***ds of Bollywood.
Raghav mentioned going through a security scanner before entering the property and revealed that Aryan occupies an entire floor of the house.
“The first time I entered Mannat, there was a scanner like the ones at the airport. I had to go through it because back then, people were like, ‘Who is this guy? Has someone come to find work?’,” Raghav shared in an interview with NDTV.
“By mistake, I asked Aryan which was his room. Then I realised, this is Shah Rukh Khan’s house-you don’t have rooms here, you have full floors. Aryan just laughed and said, ‘Come, let’s go up,’ and of course, one floor was his. We sat there and jammed, and later we went out for dinner with his friends,” he added.
The experience felt so surreal to Raghav that he called his mother as soon as he stepped out of the house. “I told her, ‘Mummy, I just came from Mannat.’ She got so excited and started asking, ‘How is it from inside? How is their bathroom? Did you see the library?’ I had to tell her, ‘Mummy, I didn’t go there as a broker, please relax.’”
Raghav is currently basking in the success of Aryan’s directorial debut, Netflix series The Ba***ds of Bollywood.
In the seven-episode series, Lakshya plays Aasmaan Singh, a young aspiring star trying to carve out an identity in Bollywood while navigating a series of challenges. Raghav plays his close friend, Parvaiz, who stands by him through it all
The series also stars Sahher Bambba, Manav Chauhan, Mona Singh and Anyaa Singh in key roles.
The Ba***ds of Bollywood is produced by Bonnie Jain and Gauri Khan under Shah Rukh’s home banner, Red Chillies Entertainment.